Jordin Canada
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I think it's just given me the opportunity to just keep my confidence, to be honest. Playing with such talented women and the level of competitiveness every game, it just makes you want to be better. It makes you want to go hard.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And so just having that opportunity to be here, it's been really great for my game, being able to work on things that, you know, I would be working in on the offseason but seeing it in live play. And like I said, just the confidence of just keeping that up and going into the W season, it's just been really a great opportunity for me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I think it's just the experience of being in the pros, to be honest with you. Coming from UCLA where I was playing starting all four years and then having to go into a talented Seattle team and playing behind one of the best, if not the best point guards in the league and having to learn and then trying to figure out, okay, where do I fit in with this group? What are my strengths?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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What are my weaknesses? Or what is it that I can do to bring to the team? And that was something that I battled with for the course of my years in Seattle, just trying to figure out how I can navigate that. So that was just pretty tough. And then, like I said, that kind of shifted my confidence just a tad bit. And it wasn't anything that Seattle did.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I think that was just me personally trying to figure out where I fit in and how I can grow and get better. And honestly, like, you know, it has helped me today because if I didn't have that experience of trying to learn and grow in a different way, then I wouldn't have you know, wouldn't be the player that I am today.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Being able to come off the bench and be okay with that and bring that energy and then also be a starter and then bring that same energy and that same confidence, that's something that I didn't have until I got to the pros. I was always starting, so I always had that, you know, energy from the jump.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And it's different when you're coming off the bench and you're playing around such talented players and your teammates. You're trying to figure out, OK, well, I might not be a scorer like I was in college, but how else can I affect the game? And that was something that I was learning. So it was just a lot of ups and downs. But I'm grateful for those moments because it's brought me here.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And now I feel like I'm in a position where. I am now a vet and I have that experience of what it's like coming off the bench. So I can talk to players like Haley and then, you know, also setting a tone and setting example of being a starter. So I'm very grateful for those times.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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How to be a pro, to be honest. Like, Coming into the gym, she's there early getting her shots up. Even after practice, she's getting her shots up. She's taking care of her body. She's doing the things that she needed to do to make sure that she's ready for a game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And I always remember my first couple of practices, my rookie year, she came up to me and she was basically like, don't try to be like me. Be you. Be yourself. There's a reason why you're here. And that's something that always stuck to me. Like, don't try to go outside myself. Just try to be who I am. And that, like I said, that has stuck with me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And just watching her day in and day out, how she communicates with the team, how she communicates. She talks, but what she says, like you really listen to what she's saying. And her brain is just like, her IQ is just out the window. Just seeing some of the things that she says, like in timeouts, like she knows what's going to happen before it happens.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And so just learning those little nuances of how I can add that to my game, but be different in a different way. So I've learned so many things from Sue, so I'm very grateful for that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Spoon has helped me tremendously. I have never had a coach just speak so much life into you day in and day out, no matter the situation, no matter if we're winning, losing, just the energy that she brings. It makes me like want to go like we don't even in a practice. She could be talking in a huddle and it just makes you want to play. It just makes you want to go hard.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And those are the type of coaches that you love. want to run through a wall for. And she does it with every single one of us. And to be honest, I know she if she does it with us, I know she's done it with all her players. And like I said, just the life that she breathes into you, the confidence and the encouragement that she's constantly giving you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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it's something that I'm truly grateful for and that I love that I have in this moment and in Unrivaled because it has helped me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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In the beginning, I was still trying to get a feel for the three-on-three, and then having her as my coach this whole time is just, like I said, has breathed life into me, has breathed life into my game, has made me confident, and hopefully we can continue to keep building that relationship going into the W season. So you feel that you have your confidence. You have your joy. I do have my joy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yes. I once I got my joy back in L.A. and I haven't lost it. So I'm very great. I'm very thankful for that because, you know, that can come and go, especially in this type of situation. in this field of basketball. One minute people hate you, the next that they love you, but the one thing that they can't take away from you is joy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So I'm glad that I got that back, and I'm just trying to keep it rolling.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You got to fight for the joy. Like, this is mine.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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My voice? I mean, in terms of basketball, I'm very quiet, you know. But when I say stuff, like, I feel that, you know, my teammates listen. I know what I'm talking about. I'm not a rowdy, loud person. I feel like I don't need to get your attention by being loud. But when I speak, I'm very intentional about the things that I say. And I feel like my players, my teammates listen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And so that's something that you want. You don't have to be the loudest to get your point across. As long as you stand on what you say and you mean what you say and how you say it, I think I'm really good at being able to talk to certain players and knowing how to talk to them. I think that's really important, especially as a PG. You can't talk to everybody the same.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Everybody responds differently to different tones. to different words. So I just try to be mindful of who I'm speaking to and how I can get my message across without, you know, having an attitude or getting loud. I mean, that's not me in general. I'm very reserved. I'm very laid back. So I just try to be intentional with my words.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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wanting to be an artist, really. In the beginning, I was kind of contemplating. I'm like, maybe I just like to sing for fun. Like, this is just something that I like to do, but I don't know if I want to pursue it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And then recently, maybe like in the last year or so, I've really been like, you know, I think I do want to actually do music and be an artist and learn what it takes to write a song or be in a studio, what it takes to make a beat and the ins and outs of the industry. So that's something that I have been navigating
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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in the last year, and then recently a couple, I guess like this last week, I've gotten a chance to get into the studio, gotten a chance to make a song, two songs, and lay down the track. And I didn't realize how hard it was. Like, it really was hard. My first time going in there, I didn't have anything. Like, I just wanted to go in and see, start from scratch.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So had a beat and then was just thinking about what I want to write about, what I want to talk about, and it was hard. And it took me... five hours just to make a hook and a verse. Wow. And I didn't, I'm like, wow, this is a lot of work. Like, is this something that I want to do? But I enjoyed it. And so the next time around, I made sure I was prepared.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I'm like, maybe I should do this differently. So I had a beat and then I was listening to it over and over again, got the lyrics, got the track, got the melody down. And then I went in there and I was like, okay, this is what I want to do. And I was a little bit more prepared. So I'm still trying to navigate, like, what works for me, what doesn't work for me, but I've had a blast doing it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I think it's been a really great opportunity for me to step outside my comfort zone and actually go for it and do it, because I've always said I wanted to make a song, I wanted to do it, but I was kind of hesitant. And now I'm just trying to step into being more...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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confident in that space and just be like you know what just do it and so I did it and I got two songs done so I'm trying to navigate what the next steps are with that if I want to do a visual if I want to just drop it so I'm happy that I got a chance to do it so what are you talking about like are you a lover are you a crooner are you is it gospel are you what's a crooner I've never heard I
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I don't know, crooning. I got to look crooning up. I don't know what crooning is, but that's a term. Now I know. Yes. I got to look it up to see what that is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So I am an R&B girl at heart. I love R&B. I'm a lover girl. So my first song is... I guess it's not a lover girl song, but it's doing, I guess you would say, a situationship, which everybody can probably relate to at some point in their lives, being in a situationship. So that's kind of like the first song that I made.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Now, the second song that I did, which I love, I love it better than the first one, it's more of a side that people don't see of me, so it's more of a... I don't want to say sensual, but it's more of like a flirty type of song. I don't want to say sexy because it's not giving that, but it's giving that
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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that flirty energy, like you're in a club, you see somebody that you like and you got, you know, is that tension and that energy that you feel. So that's something that is completely different than my personality. Like I said, I'm very shy, I'm very laid back and reserved, but those are the two songs that I've made so far, but I absolutely love this song that I made.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So we'll see moving forward what other songs that I'll create, but I definitely like the two songs that I've made so far.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Very true. Yeah. I love talk. It was crazy. I love toxic music.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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But I'm a lover girl. I'm a lover girl. Like in the studio, I say I want to make like, like love songs because I'm like I said, I'm a lover girl. But outside of the studio and just in general as a person, like I'm such a lover girl. But the music that I listen to is like very toxic. I love toxic music. So I'm like. Is that weird for me to be a lover girl but love toxic music? So I don't know.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I might wind up making toxic music. But I don't know what direction I'm going to go in. I kind of just want to dive into different avenues with topics of songs and see what fits for me. But I don't know yet. That's something I'm still trying to navigate. Well, we're going to ask the fans if they want to hear some lover girl music or some toxic music. They're probably going to say toxic music.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah. Are you able to sing it or are you going to play it for us? No, I'm going to play it for you guys, you know? Okay. So this is the song that I absolutely love. It's called, I'm still trying to figure out if I want to call it Come See or See What's Going Down. So this is the song that is more out of my comfort zone. People wouldn't necessarily see me singing or hear me singing. So here it is.
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It's a little snippet. I'm not going to give you everything, but I'm going to give you a little bit.
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Thank you. Thank you. It's weird when I hear myself for the first time on the track. I'm like, I don't sound good. But all the responses that I've gotten so far, I've been like, yo, this track is fire. I like it. You need to drop it. So I'm glad I'm getting good responses because that was something that because I'm not experienced in this space.
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Of course, I have my doubts and I'm like, oh, I don't know if you're going to like this, but I'm glad that I actually did it, and, you know, I got some people to listen to it, and they love it. So hopefully the people that are listening to this and watching this, hopefully you guys like it too.
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Yes! So they will see it.
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Yes, yes, yes. So actually... How did this come together? So actually, I don't know if you want to show them the pic. They're going to see it on the show. We'll show it to y'all. So actually, before Free Agency started, BG had a meeting with Atlanta. We were her first meeting. And so Leesh and Ryan actually went shopping and they saw these 42 jerseys and they were like, we gotta get this for BG.
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We gotta get this for BG. So I was like, okay. So they bought one for me. And then we were like, we're all gonna wear it going into the free agency meeting when we see her. So we walked in, we had the BG, we had the shirts and she was shocked, of course, and she liked it. So when she officially said that she was gonna sign with Atlanta,
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That week when she played on Friday, I believe, because we didn't play until Saturday, we were like, okay, we're all going to walk the Sephora Tunnel with our 42 jerseys. And she didn't know that we were going to do that either. So when she actually showed up, she saw, I guess somebody told her that we were going to do it. So we were walking the tunnel and she happened to come and see it.
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And she was like, wow. So then she stepped in and she took a picture. I thought it was pretty cool. Yeah.
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Yeah, we're all over the place, but that's just the love that we have. Like, as an Atlanta dream, like, we're very family-oriented, and we're going to treat you like family. So that's the vibe we wanted to give BG to let her know, like, you're stepping into an organization and stepping into a team that, you know, is going to take care of you. And we're going to treat you like family.
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You're one of us. So we just wanted to make that clear to her. So we were very happy that we got to do that. And it was meant to be. I mean... What are the chances that you see a 42 jersey just in a store randomly, especially out of all numbers, you know? So I'm glad that we were able to do that. It's a fire pick. It's an iconic pick. Thank you. Like, name that band. What is the name of that band?
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Name that band? Oh, my God. This put me on the spot. I don't know. I'm going to call it the dreamies. I don't know.
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Thank you so much for having me.